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天
tiān
1. day
2. sky
3. heaven
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 4 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

天
tiān
sky, heaven; god, celestial
HSK 1 4 丶

Compound Words (20)

天宫
Tiāngōng
Temple in Heaven (e.g. of the Jade Emperor)
天底
tiāndǐ
(astronomy) nadir
天呀
tiānya
Heavens!
天子
tiānzǐ
the (rightful) emperor
天干
tiāngān
the 10 heavenly stems [[甲<jiǎ>]], [[乙<yǐ>]], [[丙<bǐng>]], [[丁<dīng>]], [[戊<wù>]], [[己<jǐ>]], [[庚<gēng>]], [[辛<xīn>]], [[壬<rén>]], [[癸<guǐ>]], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
天幸
tiānxìng
providential good luck
天公
tiāngōng
heaven
天后
Tiānhòu
Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu [[媽祖|妈祖<Māzǔ>]]
天地
tiāndì
heaven and earth
天天
tiāntiān
every day
天山
Tiānshān
Tianshan mountain range between XinJiang and Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan
天帝
Tiāndì
God of heaven
天年
tiānnián
natural life span
天候
tiānhòu
weather
天儿
tiānr
the weather
天全
Tiānquán
Tianquan county in Ya'an [[雅安<Yǎān>]], Sichuan
回天
huítiān
lit. to reverse the rotation of the sky
天台
Tiāntāi
Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing [[紹興|绍兴]] in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism [[天台宗]]
天哪
tiānna
Good gracious!
天国
tiānguó
Kingdom of Heaven

Example Sentences (6)

天阴了，我要回家了。
Tiān yīn le, wǒ yào huí jiā le.
It's cloudy; I'm going home now.
Text 4
这两天怎么没看见小张？
Zhè liǎng tiān zěnme méi kànjiàn Xiǎo Zhāng?
How come I haven't seen Xiao Zhang these past two days?
Text 4
这两天有点儿累，不去打球了。
Zhè liǎng tiān yǒu diǎnr lèi, bù qù dǎ qiú le.
I've been a bit tired these past two days; I'm not going to play ball.
Text 3
住三天。
Zhù sān tiān.
Stay for three days.
Text 3
哪一天突然没有了电脑，我们怎么办呢？
Nǎ yì tiān tūrán méiyǒu le diànnǎo, wǒmen zěnme bàn ne?
What would we do if one day we suddenly had no computers?
Text 4
三天。
Sān tiān.
Three days.
Text 1

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
1
Character Frequency Rank
77
Word Frequency Rank
221 of 84,292